Nanking Massacre

Examples of Nanking Massacre in the following topics:

• Japanese Incursions into China

  • Building on the hard won victory in Shanghai, the Japanese army captured the Chinese nationalist capital city of Nanjing (Nanking) and Northern Shanxi by the end of 1937, in campaigns involving approximately 350,000 Japanese soldiers, and considerably more Chinese.
  • Historians estimate up to 300,000 Chinese were mass murdered in the Nanking Massacre (also known as the "Rape of Nanking") after the fall of Nanking on December 13, 1937, while some Japanese deny the existence of a massacre .
  • At the start of 1938, the Japanese government still hoped to limit the scope of the conflict to occupying areas around Shanghai, Nanking, and most of northern China.
  • This WWII-era documentary describes the Japanese invasions into China, including the Mukden Incident and the Rape of Nanking.
  • Soldiers from the Japanese army entering Nanking in 1938, as part of Japan's incursion into China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

• Japanese Expansion

  • After their victory in the Chinese capital, the Japanese military committed the infamous Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, which involved a massive number of civilian deaths including infants and elderly, and the large-scale rape of Chinese women.
  • The corpses of massacred victims from the Nanking Massacre on the shore of the Qinhuai River with a Japanese soldier standing nearby.

• Pearl Harbor

  • From December 1937, events such as the Japanese attack on USS Panay, the Allison incident, and the Nanking Massacre swung public opinion in the West sharply against Japan.

• Japanese Aggression

  • Building on the hard won victory in Shanghai, the Japanese army captured the Chinese nationalist capital city of Nanjing (Nanking) and Northern Shanxi by the end of 1937, in campaigns involving approximately 350,000 Japanese soldiers and considerably more Chinese.
  • After the fall of Nanking on December 13, what would become known as the Nanking Massacre began and lasted over the period of the next six weeks.
  • Because of the widespread systematic use of rape, the events are also known as the "Rape of Nanking."

• The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

  • The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which nine British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
  • The Boston Massacre, called "The Incident on King Street" by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
  • The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British parliamentary authority.
  • Although five years passed between the massacre and outright revolution, it is widely perceived as a significant event leading to the violent rebellion that followed.
  • A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770.

• Discontent on the Frontier

  • Colonial relations with American Indian tribes were severely tested following the events of Pontiac's Rebellion and the Conestoga Massacre.
  • Two events in 1763 severely tested colonial relations with American Indian tribes on the frontier: Pontiac's War and the Conestoga Massacre.
  • Nineteenth century lithograph of the Paxton Boys' massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, published in 1841

• The Year of Blood

  • The Native Americans executed these captives in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
  • This painting depicts the ritual torture Crawford endured in retaliation for the massacre of Christian Delawares (though Crawford had no role in that massacre).

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.
  • However, the most renowned, as well as the most brutal of the battles over the Black Hills, is the massacre which took place at Wounded Knee.
  • The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

• The Aztec in the Colonial Period

  • Alvarado allowed a significant Aztec feast to be celebrated in Tenochtitlan and on the pattern of the earlier massacre in Cholula, closed off the square and massacred the celebrating Aztec noblemen.
  • The biography of Cortés by Francisco López de Gómara contains a description of the massacre.
  • The Alvarado massacre at the Main Temple of Tenochtitlan precipitated rebellion by the population of the city.

• The First Crusade

  • The Crusaders arrived at Jerusalem, launched an assault on the city, and captured it in July 1099, massacring many of the city's Muslim and Jewish inhabitants.
  • The massacre that followed the capture of Jerusalem has attained particular notoriety, as a "juxtaposition of extreme violence and anguished faith."
  • Nevertheless, some historians propose that the scale of the massacre was exaggerated in later medieval sources.
  • Still, it is clear that some Muslims and Jews of the city survived the massacre, either escaping or being taken prisoner to be ransomed.
  • The Eastern Christian population of the city had been expelled before the siege by the governor, and thus escaped the massacre.